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View Poll Results: For you, playing the bass is... | |
a hobby
|    | 72 | 55.38% | |
a part-time job
|    | 19 | 14.62% | |
full-time job
|    | 12 | 9.23% | |
something I do when I'm bored
|    | 3 | 2.31% | |
something else
|    | 24 | 18.46% |
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04-07-2006, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Islamabad (Pakistan) | | | For you, playing the bass is a...
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04-07-2006, 11:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago | | | A hobby |
04-07-2006, 11:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | well.. i voted full time.. because i study music, and being a musician is my sole source of income (gigging/teaching) - and hopefully will be for the rest of my life! |
04-08-2006, 01:36 AM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | | I used to do it as a way to make my living, but now I just do it part time, as a hobby. Making money at it now is just icing on the cake, as I really don't need the money I make at it now.
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04-08-2006, 02:05 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sweden | | | I'm practicing 6-8 hours a day, i hope bass playing is going to be my full-time job... |
04-08-2006, 02:05 AM
| | I call shotgun! | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Columbia MD USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Ryan Lunneborg I used to do it as a way to make my living, but now I just do it part time, as a hobby. Making money at it now is just icing on the cake, as I really don't need the money I make at it now. | Pretty much sums it up for me as well. I like it much better this way.
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04-08-2006, 02:34 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Edwcdc Pretty much sums it up for me as well. I like it much better this way. | same here. |
04-08-2006, 02:41 AM
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Proprietor, Helland Musikk Teknologi | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Norway | | | It's a Way Of Life.
I won't have much chance of making a living playing bass, not here in Norway. And I'm not sure it'd be quite as fun if my income depended on it.
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04-08-2006, 06:53 AM
| | I call shotgun! | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Columbia MD USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by elros It's a Way Of Life.
I won't have much chance of making a living playing bass, not here in Norway. And I'm not sure it'd be quite as fun if my income depended on it. | I didn't make a great living but I didn't do too bad. A lot of times it felt like a grind. I gave it up right around the time my son was born. After about 7 or 8 years I got back into it but decided that I didn't care if I made much money. Any money I made was a plus but this time around I would do it on my terms. I'm only in it for the fun and when it stops being fun I will stop gigging. I'm sure I will always play even if I don't have a gig. It's a way of life and it is what I do/am.
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04-08-2006, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina | | An expensive hobby that has changed my way of life . It is supported by a full time job. I love to play when I am bored. 
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04-08-2006, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | At the moment, a hobby. I hope to make it a full time job eventually.
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04-08-2006, 03:04 PM
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endorsing artist: Dean guitars, Marshall , Rotosound strings | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: North Kent.UK | | | a full time job, a passion, AND a hobby!!
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04-08-2006, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Expensive hobby. |
04-08-2006, 05:35 PM
| | | | Hobby, and it will remain so. I have no interest in entering what is reputed to be one of the most cutthroat industries in the world. |
04-08-2006, 05:44 PM
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DPA Endorses Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bay Area, CA | | Right no, it's my passion and one of my volunteer ministries...
Eventually, it will become a part of my full-time job 
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04-08-2006, 09:30 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | It's my primary hobby. But it's more than that.
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04-09-2006, 12:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Edmonton AB | | | It's totally a way of life for me... I just love jamming on bass, even if its by myself. It's definitely much more than a hobby.
But I'm hoping it will turn into a "part time job" soon, doing some paid gigs with one of my bands! |
04-09-2006, 12:14 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | One of my many hobbies. |
04-09-2006, 12:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alberta,Canada | | | an orgasmic experience
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04-09-2006, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Did anyone else get the urge to say, "For me, playing the bass is a carrot." Since this is a poll and all.
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